Retreat

  Excerpts from Swami Vivekananda's lectures on Vedanta FUNDAMENTALS OF RELIGION My mind can best grasp the religions of the world, ancient or modern, dead or living, through this fourfold division: 1, Symbology---The employment of various external aids to preserve and develop the religious faculty of man. 2. History---The philosophy of each religion as illustrated in the lives of divine or human teachers acknowledged by each religion. This includes mythology, for what is mythology to one race or period, is, or was, history to other races or periods. Even in cases of human teachers, much of their history is taken as mythology by successive generations 3. Philosophy---The rationale of the whole scope of each religion. 4. Mysticism---The assertion of something superior the sense knowledge and reason, which particular persons or all persons under certain circumstances, possess. This runs through the other divisions also. All the religions of the world, past or present, embrace one or...

  Flipping through the pages of the book of life I fell asleep. The wind kept turning the pages after me, one by one, one after the other, keeping up with the logic of necessity. Faithfully beside me the book lay and I fell quiet in the arms of sleep. Once in a while in a respite of partial dream and wakeful sleep I blinked and saw the bookmark ribboned with accuracy every page that the wind had read by proxy, for me lying asleep. A silken thread went winding on, a miracle how the pages held on fast to the slim and brittle strand. Sushama Karnik. 0:01  /  0:02 Daniele Chany    ·  In the shadow of your sleep rest the vestiges of songs just over the hills it seems pointing to the other horizon I'm not begging for sunshine no rai I carry it inside me The light of your awakening the twinkle in your eyes arrived to eternity Alain Mabanckou    ·  See original    ·